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Kingmilo
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: OpenOffice/Thunderbird are giving me a headache :( |
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Some of the below is possibly an OpenOffice/Thunderbird problem and I will head off to their forums in a moment. 
There are a couple things I would like to discuss, they surround the following applications:
OpenOffice 2.0.1 - built from source
Thunderbird 1.5 - built from source
Im running gentoo on X86 platform all Intel architecture.
I run emerge --sync daily and all packages are up to date etc.
4GB RAM
3.2GHZ SMP Processor
160GB SATA <- / + /boot + swap (512MB) 45% used
400GB IDE <- /mnt/share
I will quickly list the problems:
1.) OpenOffice crashes often with no error when working in any document (not over NFS, as I know there was a problem with NFS shares).
2.) OpenOffice/Thunderbird is no longer capable of sending email as a PDF if the document is .xls and ONLY .xls (.doc works fine). While in OOo I go to Send | document as .pdf which then attaches .pdf to TB.
The pdf is corrupt when I try to open it.
3.) If Thunderbird is not open when I try and send a document as an attachment from OpenOffice, it envokes Thunderbird, but does not attach anything (This I am sure is a Thunderbird1.5 problem)
4.) Memory, as mentioned above I have 4GB of physical RAM. My system is only showing 3GB. This might be a setting in the BIOS, but I have been unable to check that at the moment. The real problem I am having is that my system is starting to swap. I understand that linux uses all memory available because it is there to use, but when your box starts swapping out 300MB of the 512MB of swap available then something is wrong. I think that OpenOffice is the culprit, and maybe Thunderbird, one if not both of these applications are leaking memory.
Alright that's it. If anyone can assist or give me feedback on the above I would appreciate it.
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Karl-Franz
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Joined: 11 Jan 2005
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Location: /se/lund
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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'emerge info' might shed some light. Open office 2 is stable as a rock for me.
As for the swap issues, I think the default swap-usage is 60 % of the total memory usage. This can be changed by adding
vm.swappiness = 20
for 20 % (10 for 10%) usage in /etc/ioctl.something.
If you have 4gb of ram, why mount a swapdrive? |
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Kingmilo
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Location: South Africa
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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First off Id like to say thanks for the reply and the help 
Below is my
| Code: | Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre14
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk"
LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd expat fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl snmp spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS |
| Quote: | | If you have 4gb of ram, why mount a swapdrive? |
The only real reason I use swap is because it has been the norm for me throughout my gentoo experience and Id rather be safe than sorry if you know what I mean, although the system is currently serving 40 concurrent users via xdmcp/kdmrc, who all run TB, FF, OOo, printing. My knowledge is obviously not as clued up as I would like it to be.
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As for the swap issues, I think the default swap-usage is 60 % of the total memory usage. |
That is something I didnt know, but I have definitely seen it use over 60% of my swap.
What I dont understand is that it's using swap, but I still have 1GB of free physical mem.
I would of thought it should only start swapping when it runs out of physical?
Hope this help you better understand my setup and situation, thanks again for the help ! |
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pjp
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Posts: 20067
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